Open Source virt-manager Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to virt-manager for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Linux alternative is VirtualBox. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to virt-manager and 17 are open source and available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Linux alternatives to virt-manager are WinBoat, Vagrant, Cockpit Project and Boxes.

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    VirtualBox

     2934 likes

    Open source VirtualBox offers powerful x86/AMD64 virtualization available freely under GNU GPL v2. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris hosts. Supports a vast array of guest OS like Windows, Linux, Solaris. Portable, lightweight, ad-free, with dark mode.

    65 VirtualBox alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Oracle Solaris
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    Comments about VirtualBox as an Alternative to virt-manager
    Guest
    Negative
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    virt-manager is a frontend for KVM and other VM hosts. VirtualBox is a VM host with a built-in frontend

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    edortta71
    Negative
    0

    VirtualBox is a virtualizer while virt-manager is a GUI software that helps to administrate virtual machines in libvirt, LXE, etc environments

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
    0

    Type 1 vs Type 2 hypervisor

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • This alternative is disputed. VirtualBox is a legitimate virt-manager alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • VirtualBox is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to virt-manager.

    • VirtualBox is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to virt-manager.

    • VirtualBox is Free and Open Sourcevirt-manager is also Free and Open Source
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    WinBoat

     64 likes

    Runs Windows applications, individual apps, or full desktops inside Linux with native OS-level integration, sleek interface, advanced filesystem sharing, smartcard passthrough, and resource monitoring while supporting simple installation and ongoing feature updates.

    52 WinBoat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Docker
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  4. Vagrant icon

    Vagrant

     107 likes

    Create and manage virtualized development environments. Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases development/production parity, and makes...

    22 Vagrant alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • VirtualBox
    • VMware Workstation Pro
    • VMware Fusion
    • FreeBSD
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    Comments about Vagrant as an Alternative to virt-manager
    Guest
    Negative
    4

    Vagrant is a configuration management platform, whereas virt-manager is a frontend for managing VMs on QEMU/KVM, Xen, and other hypervisors supported by libvirt.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Vagrant is Free and Open Sourcevirt-manager is also Free and Open Source
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    Cockpit Project

     39 likes

    Makes it easy to administer Linux servers via a web browser. It allows you to easily perform simple tasks like storage administration, inspecting journals, starting & stopping services, monitoring & administering several servers at once.

    33 Cockpit Project alternatives

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
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    Boxes

     30 likes

    A simple GNOME application to access virtual systems. It is based on a design from Jon McCann and Jakub Steiner.

    28 Boxes alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
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    Comments about Boxes as an Alternative to virt-manager
    Guest
    Positive
    6

    probably the closet software to virt-manager but it's not as feature rich

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Boxes is Free and Open Sourcevirt-manager is also Free and Open Source
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    Quickemu

     10 likes

    Quickly create and run highly optimised desktop virtual machines for Linux, macOS and Windows; with just two commands. You decide what operating system you want to run and Quickemu will figure out the best way to do it for you. For example:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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    Comments about Quickemu as an Alternative to virt-manager
    Kris Regina
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    Great on Linux, But I'm not sure about how it runs on macOS. Unfortunately, it is not available for Windows.

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    • Quickemu is Free and Open Sourcevirt-manager is also Free and Open Source
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    oVirt

     24 likes

    oVirt is a virtualization management application. That means that you can use the oVirt management interface ( the oVirt engine) to manage hardware nodes, storage and network resources, and to deploy and monitor virtual machines running in your data center.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    Xen Orchestra

     18 likes

    XO is a web UI providing a simple and nice web interface to manage XCP-ng and Citrix Hypervisor (formerly (XenServer) infrastructure (VM, servers, pools, etc.). It's also a fully feature backup solution for those platforms.

    15 Xen Orchestra alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Multipass

     7 likes

    Multipass is a lightweight VM manager for Linux, Windows and macOS. It's designed for developers who want a fresh Ubuntu environment with a single command. It uses KVM on Linux, Hyper-V on Windows and HyperKit on macOS to run the VM with minimal overhead.

    59 Multipass alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
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    Apache Mesos

     20 likes

    Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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    Kimchi

     7 likes

    Kimchi is an HTML5 based management tool for KVM. It is designed to make it as easy as possible to get started with KVM and create your first guest.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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